Basin-fixture



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H. PIETSCH. BASIN FIXTURE.

Patented Apr. 7, 1891. 3 .u

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No. 450,034. Patented Apr. 7, 1891 IN VE N TOI? Wfiwaf WITNESSES;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN PIETSCH, OF FLATBU SH, NEW YORK.

BASIN-.FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,034 dated April 7, 1891.

Application filed June 16, 1890- Serial No. 355,616. (No model.) I

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN PIETSCH,' 'of Flatbush, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Basin-Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to stationary wash and other like basins; and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, including the bowl and an exterior outlet-valve and valve-casing constructed to also form an escape for the overflow when the overflow-apertures in the bowl, if any, are stopped or are dispensed with, also constructed to form an overflow trap in the valve casing and including a removable strainer-like catch-box for foreign substances passing through the main outlet of the basin, and other novel features, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a stationary wash-basin embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section upon the line 10 w in Fig. 1, showing the valve open. Fig. 3 is a like horizontal section in part showing the valve closed. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section upon the line xx in Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 another horizontal section upon the line y y in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the valve detached, and Fig. 7 is atop view of the button on the valve-stem by which the valve is turned to open and close it.

A indicates the wash bowl or basin proper, made of porcelain, as usual, or of any other suitable material, and B is the marble or other slab which forms the cover over the upper marginal portions of the bowl. Said basin A, which has a strainer-like grating b in its bottom, has integral with it a lower open-bottomed chamber 0 immediately beneath the grating b andfrom which is an integral side branch cl, that terminates at its outer end in an upright cylinder (2, which is also shown as integral with the bowl and as communicating above by a branch f with the upper portion of the bowl through overflow-openings g. These overflow-openings g, however, may, if desired, be omitted.

Inserted up within the chamber 0 is a removable cup or catch-box body 0, having perforate'd sides, and which serves to catch any foreign substances that may pass through the bottom outlet or grating b of the basin, together With the water being run off from the bowl. The water escaping through the per forations in the sides of the strainer-like catch-box body 0 passes off by the branch d to the cylinder e and through a valve and Valve-casing, when said valve is open, to a general outlet-nozzle D, to which is connected the outlet-pipe leading to the sewer or elsewhere. The strainer-like catch-box body 0 is carried by and fitted over an inverted-cupshaped flange-piece C, which completes the catch-box' and forms a solid bottom to it. This close or solid flange-piece C enters up within the chamber 0 and its lower flange bears up against a packing h, interposed between it and a flange i on the bottom of the chamber 0, and is clamped or held there, to make a water-tight joint, by a thumb-screw F, which passes up through the flange-piece C, subject to an interposed packing, and up through the body 0 of the catch-box, and screws into a boss I) of the grating b, which in its turn screws into a nut 19*, carried by the basin. Thus thegrating is held firmly down to its place and thecatch-box secured to its placeybut on taking out the thumb-screw F andremoving the flange-piece O the catchbox, which catches any foreign substances passing off from the basin and prevents all choking of the outlet pipes or passages and valve controlling the escape, may be readily removed when required to empty it of foreign substances collecting in it; or the perforated body part 0 of the catch-box may be wholly removed, if not needed, and the flange-piece C and screw F be reinserted, when the grati-ng b alone may be used to prevent the egress of foreign substances from the basin.

Within the cylinder or chamber 6 at the one side of the basin is a metal upright cylindrical valve-case G of lesser size transversely than the interior of the cylinder 6, so as to leave awater space or duct is all around it,

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or between it and the cylinder orcha'mbere.

This valve-case G has an aperturelin it's'sid'e for the outlet end of the discharge branch d, and one or more upper side apertures m in line with the overflow-level of the bowl. The

lower end of said case G terminates at the upper screw-box H, into which the upper end of the valve-case G screws. This screw-box or cap H also serves to close by a-suitable joint or packing the upper end of the cylinder 6, thereby making an air-tight joint, which assists in preventing sewer-gas escaping from the fixture. The valve spindle s also passes up through a flanged box I, which is entered down through the slab or cover B. The box I forms a bearing for the spindle 8 within or through the slab B.

The valve J is a hollow cylindricalone, open at both ends, and is mainly constructed of metal, surrounded by aleather facing or 00V- 4 ering f to make a close fit with the interior of the case G. The body of the valve has an aperture g in its side, which, when the'valve is turned to open, registers with the openin'gl in the valve-case, so as to discharge the water escaping by the branch 01 directly through the side of the valve,but which aperture g',when the valve is turned to close, is adjusted out of line or register with the opening Z, These adjustments of the valve are controlled by a stop, which may be a simple screw h, entered through one of the upper apertures m in the valve-case, and which, passing through adownwardly-projectingsleeve d of lesser diameter than the valve-case, screws into alower boss of a cap-piece d fitted within the upper end of the valve-case and beingfree to turn therein in common with the valve spindle s, to which it is applied. This sleeve 01', in connection with a tube 01 carried by a plug d in the valvecase and which projects up within the lower end of the sleeve d, forms, in conjunction with the ring or plug dfla trap to contain water passing out through the valve by theopienings m for the purpose of excluding sewergas from entering through the fixture. A

stop which controls the opening and closing positions of the valve J is also arranged below-as, for instance, by a screw h, entered through the valve-case G and arranged to 'enter within a slot in the valve-case, the action being similar to that of the stop at t-he' upper end of the valve-case, which may also be used.

The leather covering f of the valve may be secured around the metal body of the lat ter by a metal clip entered through'the valve-body from its inside and th'rcugh the leather on opposite sides of its longitudinal joint, and then having its ends clinched onthe outside of the leather. It' may also be partly secured in place by having the metal part of the body of the valve project through the leather on the marginal portions of the aperture g. The whole valve sits closely at its lower end down within a seat m in the outlet-nozzle D.

The valve J, which may be turned by a button on the upper e'nd of its spindle, not only dispenses with the usual plug in the bottom of the wash-bowl or basin A and admits of said bottom being provided with a strainer or grating, but serves, by a slight circular movement of its operating-button, according to the direction in which it is turned, to open or close the aperture Z in the valve-case for the direct discharge of escaping water from the basin through the side of the valve or to shut off the water from passing through said apermm 1. When the valve J is closed, then water passing from the basin through its perforated or grating bottom I) will pass by the branch 01 up through the space or passage It around the valve-case G and will rise therein till it reaches the upper or overflow apertures m in said valve-case and will stand at the same level in the basin, or the water may be at a lower level in both the basin A and cylind'er e. Should more water, however, enter the basin than is necessary to carry it up to the apertures m--'as, for instance, by the accidental leaving of the supply-tap open then the surplus water will pass off as overflow through the apertures m, and filling the trap formed by the parts d d d and valve-case will pass out down the valve-case and its closed "valve, thus enabling me to dispense, if desired,

with the overflow-apertures gin the basin; or should said apertures 9 become choked the overflow will still be maintained by the water passing up through the space 70 and out down by the apertures on through the closed valve. When the overflow-apertures g in the basin are used as well, then there will be a double exit for surplus water from the basin, the apertures m serving, in addition, to carry oft'the excess. I By dispensing, however, altogether with the basin-overflow apertures 9 then the overflow will wholly pass off by the apertures m in the valve-case, the valve being closed, and a body of water will remain in the basin and in the space 70 up to the level of the apertures 1%.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination of the basin A, having a strainer-like bottom or grating b, a lower chamberc, open below, arranged beneath said bottom, and an escape branch or water-outlet duct d,in communication with said chamber, the removable catch-box body 0, of strainerlikeconstr'uction on its sides, and means for securing said catch-box body in place and for h'oldingithe bottom of the chamber a closed, essentially as specified.

2. The combination of the basin A, having a lower chamber 0 open below and an escape branch or outlet-duct d in communication with said chamber, the grating b, with its inner and outer screw-threaded boss b',the nut b the screw E, theclose flange-piece O',and the strainer-like catch-box body 0, essentially as shown and described.

3. In a wash-basin fixture, the combination, with the upright valve box or case G and valve J, of the outlet-nozzle D, of cup shape above and arranged to receive the lower ends of the valve box or case and valve within it, essentially as specified.

4. In a wash-basin fixture, the combination, with the cylinder or chamber e, valve box or case G, having screw-threads on its upper and lower ends, and valve J, of the screw box or cap H and the outlet-nozzle D, constructed to screw onto the lower end of the valve-box and to bear up against the bottom end of the chamber e, substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with the outer cylinder or chamber 0 of the basin and duct (1, of the tubular valve, J, having a lateral lower opening g, the valve box or case G, having a corresponding lower lateral opening land one or more upper lateral openings m, and an overflow-water trap within the upper portion of the valve-case, essentially as herein set forth.

6. In a wash-basin fixture, the tubular valve J, having a lateral aperture g, and having a flexible covering f constructed to receive the marginal walls of the aperture g through it, and the clip is", operating to hold the flexible valve-covering closed, essentially as described.

" HERMAN PIETSOH.

Witnesses:

A. GREGORY, EDGAR TATE, J AS. A. PIETSCH. 

